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Specialties: Downsizing, home design, living well, decluttering, decorating for less
Home base: Orlando
Web site: www.marnijameson.com
A nationally syndicated columnist, author, journalist, speaker and frequent TV guest, Marni Jameson is America’s most-loved home and lifestyle expert. Her humorous and helpful column “At Home with Marni Jameson” appears in 25 papers nationwide, reaching 7 million readers each week including many loyal readers who have been following the author’s home adventures for well over a decade. As one reviewer wrote, “Think Erma Bombeck meets Rachael Ray in one humble yet helpful package.”
Her most recent book, Downsizing the Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go (Sterling Publishing, 2016), quickly became an Amazon bestseller, hitting No.1 in the categories of aging parents, real estate, and selling and buying homes. In it, Marni uses her trademark narrative voice—a blend of wit, wisdom, vulnerability and tough love—to provide a roadmap through one of life’s most difficult rites of passage. Whether tackling your own home, or that of a loved one’s, Marni’s provides a sympathetic mindset and encouragement as she lights the way.
Marni’s other two popular titles—The House Always Wins: Create the Home You Love Without Busting Your Budget and House of Havoc: How to Make and Keep a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap Husbands, Messy Kids and Other Difficult Roommates (both Da Capo Press)—also received wide and glowing acclaim. Publishers Weekly calls Marni’s work “hilarious, helpful and brave.”
An award-winning journalist, Jameson has also written for national women’s magazines, including Woman’s Day, Family Circle, and Reader’s Digest, and has published more than 2,000 articles in the Los Angeles Times and the Orlando Sentinel, where she served as a senior health reporter, taking Florida’s top journalism award for medical science and health reporting.
Marni has made dozens of TV appearances on ABC, NBC and FOX, and has given dozens of media interviews. What makes Marni such a fresh voice is that she’s not the expert. Rather, she’s an expert brain picker, with access. She uses her well-honed journalism skills to interview experts and bring home advice that works.
Marni received her master‘s degree in creative writing from Vermont College, and her bachelor‘s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism, where she graduated with honors and distinction. She lives with her husband in Winter Park, Florida. Whether speaking or writing, her message helps audiences live better, more beautifully, and saner, for less—and to do it all with a sense of humor.
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Wall Street Journal, March 2016, “Books to Read Before You Downsize”
AARP Bulletin, March 2016, “20 Tips to Declutter Your Home"
The Oklahoman, April 2016, “Columnist Marni Jameson's book hits the head and heart”
Marin County, California, newspapers and online,April 2016: “IJ columnist Marni Jameson’s new book looks at downsizing the family home”